Noelle Pikus-Pace is taking her last steps on the across-the-world-and-back road she hopes will lead to the 2010 Winter Olympics. She knows it all will end soon, and that when it does she'll be able to spend almost every waking moment with her 1-year-old daughter, Lacee.

Don't choke on your bubble gum when you hear what former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner has in mind for Topps, the 69-year-old trading card and candy company just bought for $385 million by a consortium he led. He wants Topps to create a movie, TV, Internet and publishing franchise around Bazooka Joe.